{"id":456190,"date":"2026-06-02T00:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/456190\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T00:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:12:10","slug":"nz-first-recruits-another-hobsons-pledge-spokesperson-to-stand-in-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/456190\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ First recruits another Hobson\u2019s Pledge spokesperson to stand in general election"},"content":{"rendered":"

While she was unsuccessful in her Port Waikato electorate race, Costello was ranked highly on the party\u2019s list at number three below leader Winston Peters and deputy leader Shane Jones. <\/p>\n

Costello is now a Cabinet minister with ministerial responsibility for Customs and Seniors while holding several associate ministerial roles. <\/p>\n

In June last year, Ikilei had a spat with Education Minister Erica Stanford<\/a> over a reference to the Treaty of Waitangi relating to the duties of school boards. <\/p>\n

The legislation downgraded the priority placed on school boards to give effect to the Treaty while establishing educational achievement as the highest priority. <\/p>\n

However, Ikilei alleged Stanford was sneaking a \u201cradical\u201d Treaty of Waitangi clause into legislation, despite the clause previously existing in the legislation. <\/p>\n

Stanford replied, criticising Hobson\u2019s Pledge for whipping up \u201chatred\u201d, \u201cfrothing at the mouth\u201d, and \u201cspouting complete and utter garbage, lies\u201d.<\/p>\n

Adam Pearse is the Deputy Political Editor and part of the NZ Herald\u2019s Press Gallery team based at Parliament in Wellington. He has worked for NZME since 2018, reporting for the Northern Advocate in Whang\u0101rei and the Herald in Auckland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While she was unsuccessful in her Port Waikato electorate race, Costello was ranked highly on the party\u2019s list…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9526,19956,5903,1888,2294,209,231844,78,72832,111,43,139,69,3459,45141,128908,47964,14446,61,11744,1533,80],"class_list":["post-456190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-another","tag-candidate","tag-election","tag-first","tag-general","tag-group","tag-hobsons","tag-in","tag-lobby","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pledge","tag-recruits","tag-spokesman","tag-spokesperson","tag-stand","tag-to","tag-upcoming","tag-will","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}